The question of whether footballers taking the knee before games is causing ligament damage has already been raised in the Daily Sceptic by Dr. James Alexander. He wasn’t being serious, obviously, but I think he may have been on to something.
If you have read my Substack newsletter then you will know that I am a fan of Hull City and go to every home game. I have also been to a few away games.
Before the World Cup break, we rarely took the knee and when we did we struggled to put on a decent performance. In fact, we have not won at home since October 5th and taking the knee hasn’t helped. The only places where we picked up three points were at other grounds. This may be because, at those grounds, players aren’t allowed to make this gesture. For example, when we travelled to Rotherham on October 22nd, and were forbidden to take the knee, we were able to put four goals past them. Then we hosted Blackburn the following week, duly took the knee and lost 0-1. It was like I was watching two different teams, but the only difference was we took the knee before the game we lost – it was even the same set of players! After the defeat by Blackburn we have won zero out of six, at home, and won three out of five, on the road. We did take the knee at Wigan; however, it was the substitutions, who did not take the knee, who made the biggest impact.
We were 1-0 up and, just before half time, were forced to make a substitution as a player went down injured. The player we brought on was Tyler Smith, who hadn’t taken he knee. We conceded in the 63rd minute so we brought on Ryan Woods in the 68th minute and Ozan Tufan in the 75th minute, neither of whom had genuflected to the great God of anti-racism. And three minutes after Tufan was brought on we took the lead again. We then made a double substitution in the 83rd minute – more non-knee takers – and after two minutes Tyler Smith, who was the substitute before half time, scored to increase our lead. He then got another goal in the 91st minute. Admittedly, it was the knee-taking Pervis Estupinan, who started the game, who got the second goal. But it was a very poor shot and only ended up in the net after a deflection. So was Oscar’s poor shot due to ligament damage? That is the only thing I can think of because he is our top goal scorer and I have never seen him scruff up a shot in front of goal like that. Overall, It was the substitutes and Oscar’s deflected goal that got us the win. The other players who took the knee did bugger all.
Many other teams in our league have stopped letting the players take the knee – very sensibly, given its impact on players’ performances. It is time for Hull to do the same thing. I have no truck with this gesture, and it’s self-evidently just ineffective virtue-signalling. Even our own fans boo when we do it.
Jack Watson is a 14 year-old Hull City fan. You can subscribe to his Substack newsletter, Ten Foot Tigers, here.
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There really is nothing else to say about this which hasn’t already been said a thousand times, therefore a meme will have to do it for me;
https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1701625288457658869
During the Coronavirus Press Conference held on May 11, 2020 Chris Whitty stated: “The great majority of people will not die from this (Covid-19) […] A significant proportion of people will not get this virus at all […] Of those who get symptoms, the great majority – probably 80%, will have a mild or moderate disease. Might be bad enough for them to have to go to bed for a few days.” (Watch from minute 58:32 of recorded press conference: Coronavirus press conference (11 May 2020) – YouTube Coronavirus press conference (11 May 2020) – YouTube
The imaginary virus hypothesis remains robust.
Angus Dalgliesh was our guest yesterday evening at MD4CE. His succinct & fact heavy analysis of the last few years is well worth a the investment of your time when it gets uploaded – hopefully later today. He really sits on the fence when expressing his opinion of Chris Whitty…. (Heavy sarcasm alert!)
Some very interesting Q&As too.
https://rumble.com/user/cbkovess
Now that’s a liberal democracy! People being disappeared in covert facilites for roughly three weeks based on nothing but executive fiat. The statement about flu vaccination is particularly odd. I’m wondering if this really preliminary vaxx marketing was one of the release conditions.
What is the point of the testing if you are offered no Covid-specific treatment,
In the good old days if you “had a virus” you treated the symptoms with analgesics and rest, and Covid is no different.
“Thereupon, he went to his doctor, who sent his perfectly healthy patient…”
Why? Why would a perfectly healthy patient go to his doctor? It wasn’t a viral pandemic, but a pandemic of hypochondria which allowed the shysters in Government to get away with their monstrous evil.
And… normally for Cold & ‘Flu, first symptoms start about 24 hours after infection as the immune response starts to build up. In this case first symptoms were noticed about 72 hours after infection. Doesn’t seem right. Then within 48 hours, symptoms cleared up chased away by Paracetamol – doesn’t seem right either.
But then… we are in the post-March 2020 new age of medicine and medical science.
“Thereupon, he went to his doctor, who sent his perfectly healthy patient…”
Why? Why would a perfectly healthy patient go to his doctor?
Because of the media hype, obviously. A hypochondriac would have claimed to be ill which this guy didn’t. Someone, presumably the government of the free state of Bavaria (official name) then kept him (and most of his colleagues) locked up in solitary confinment in a secret isolation facility/ prison until The Corona Pandemic and everything related to that was well under way. Presumably, they weren’t too keen on first hand witnesses possibly contradicting the scare stories early on. As no Corona measures had been implemented at that time, this was obviously formally illegal.
The thing to gather from that was that the course was already firmly set before anything-corona had happened in Europe. The authorities were not reacting to public demand. They were acting as they had planned before the public demanded anyhting about this.